SMOKE:
California/Pacific Northwest/Near-coastal Pacific Waters:
The wildfires in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties were seen continuing
to produce dense to very thick smoke this morning/early afternoon.
The thickest area of smoke extends SW-ward from the source with a large
area farther out in the Pacific and wrapping NE-ward to the west of the
Bay area and southward. Lighter smoke extends up the coastline along
the California and Oregon coastlines and s-ward from the source, well
off the Baja California coastline.
Black Hills/Sandhills:
The Legion Lake Fire in the Black Hills of southwestern South Dakota
was observed emitting moderately dense to dense smoke throughout the
morning/early afternoon. The smoke from this wildfire had extended
to the southeast across western Nebraska/northeast Colorada into the
western/southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma, then into southwest
Missouri.
J Kibler
THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS
OF SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME
DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE
FIRE. TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST
ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF
THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO
THE SOURCE FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE:
JPEG: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/hms.html
GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm
KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.